Specialist In Early U.s. Joins Lehigh U. Faculty

Jean R. Soderlund joined the Lehigh University faculty as a history professor in January. She specializes in Colonial and Revolutionary America and in African-American and U.S. women's history.

Soderlund has been associate professor of history at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, and curator of the papers of William Penn for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles, including "Quakers and Slavery: A Divided Spirit" and "Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath."